Transcript Web 2.0 and Young Learners Creating Interactive Multimedia

Web 2.0
and Young Learners
Creating Interactive Multimedia on the Internet
Judy Soto and Jennifer Krayewski
Greenwich Country Day School
Session
This session will suggest projects and techniques
teachers of young children can use to explore the
new possibilities available, including the use of
iPods, podcasts, Web-based tools and other
interactive media.
What is Web 2.0
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Interactive side of the web compared to
the static web we’ve first met
•Blogs
•Podcasting
•Wikis
•Social Bookmarking
•Social Networking
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•iPods -
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•Computers - Mac based, using Intel iMacs
•iPods
•Microphones
•Digital Cameras
•Books
Applications
•Apple’s iLife Suite - iPhoto, iMovie, Garage Band, iTunes, iWeb
•AppleWorks
•Kid Pix
• Kidspiration
•Photo Booth
•Safari
•Apple Remote Desktop - teacher only
•Dreamweaver - teacher only
•iWeb
•Smart Board
Move to Web 2.0
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Found ourselves printing fewer projects
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Creating more and more multimedia project to
be shared on web
• Easily combining a variety of sources - sound
files, video clips, web based images
• Began with podcasts and moved on to blogs
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Use of video - Google video, United Streaming
• Collaborating with Moodle and Google Docs
Reaction
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Children love applications like Garage Band
and enjoyed working collaboratively
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Must use password protection - identifiable
children’s pictures not permitted on website
• Projects well received - parents, students,
teachers
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Classroom teachers enthusiastic about web
audio and video resources
Posting Projects
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Use iWeb - fast and easy
• Used .Mac account
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Provides aggregator (checks for changes
and updates in minutes)
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Provides the ability to syndicate Podcasts
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Tags the work so that it becomes searchable
Third Grade Projects
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iMovie Podcast
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Podcast for annual third grade
iMovie project
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Culminating project incorporating lower school
tech skills and use of wide variety of application
• Students love project and enjoyed sharing
progress with parents
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Podcast contains movies, interviews
Third Grade Projects
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Favorite Book Review - Podcast and Blog
• Planned in Kidspiration, published in AppleWorks
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Recorded voice with iPod
• Illustrated book in Kid Pix,
exported as jpeg
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Collected PhotoBooth head shot and book cover
image from Internet
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Created podcast in Garage BandTeacher took Garage
Band files from server and exported to iWeb.
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Project searchable by name of child or name of book.
Blog added for students to add their own comments about any book
GarageBand Demo
Third Grade Projects
•Halloween Spooky Stories BlogEach class given a
Halloween story. Collaborative work with partner planning,
reading
•Voices recorded on an iPod. Illustrated stories in Kid Pix and
saved in JPEG format. Created spooky music to play behind
readings using Garage Band, added their pictures to voices and
sounds.Entire book put together in Garage Band and saved in
QuickTime for the Internet.
Second Grade Projects
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Tiger Pride Blog
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Each week students are assigned a "Pride of the Week"
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Using iMovie and the built in camera on the iMac,
students worked in pairs to record the Pride of the Week
and offered suggestions on how others can show their
pride
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Other students use the blog to record and tell about how
they practiced their pride.
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Site is password protected.
With younger students
we found
it was very
Second
Grade
Projects
useful to use a simple script which they filled
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in and read.
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The Pride of the Week this week is:
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We could practice this pride by:
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Or we could:
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What will you do to:
Second Grade Projects
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Website of the Week
• Used for both Second and Third Grades
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Safe site without outside links
• All sites correlated to current grade level
curriculum
First Grade Projects
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Roar, the GCDS Tiger
Online collaborative project - schools
share information about their media center.
• Read Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems.
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Using Kid Pix the children drew Roar hiding
and wrote about where he could possibly be
on campus
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Published on blog
First Grade Projects
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The Leaf Man
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Used to introduce first graders to logging on and
finding their project
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Listened to reading of book, The Leaf Man, by Lois Ehlert
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Made leaf man or animal with collected Fall leaves, acorns, etc.
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Took digital picture, brought in as background in Kid Pix
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Wrote their leaf man using template with repeated line from book
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Online story created in iMovie, with each child a chapter, and
exported to QuickTime
Teachers
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Started using it with my daughter who
lives in San Francisco to plan her wed
- now use it all the time! including new
wedding in Boston
Conferencing using Google Docs
Plan meetings
Presentations
Ordering
Does not work in all browsers...Safari
• Moodle Blogs
Co-Teacher Blog
At work Weight Watchers’ blog
Problems Encountered
• Although we love the ease of iWeb, the
application is limited. It is cumbersome to work
on more than one computer at a time.
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Files are saved in a single package called
Domain.sites which can be copied to other
computers for multiple computer use. It is
stored within the user’s library/application
support/iWeb. This is the site that needs to be
copied
To Find Out More...
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•Kathy Schrock (session later today 1pm - 2pm)
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http://school.discoveryeducation.comschrockguideedtools.html#Web20tools
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http://kathyschrock.net/web20
David Warlick - Keynote at 06 CECA
Class Blogmeister - Click on Warlick’s The Landmark Project,
http://classblogmeister.com/index.php
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Will Richardson (session later today 4pm - 5pm)
• Tom Lauer
Contact
Judy Soto at [email protected]
or
Jennifer Krayewski at [email protected]